Sandals and Suits: Get Legal Questions Answered at Entrepreneur Legal Lunch Series at 1410Q, Hosted by St. Ledger-Roty Neuman& Olson

Washington, DC (PRWEB) March 18, 2010

The D.C.- based technology law firm St. Ledger-Roty Neuman & Olson is hosting its first Sandals and Suits legal lunch for tech entrepreneurs on Friday, March 26, 2010, at entrepreneur hotspot 1410Q, starting at 12:00 p.m. This event will be repeated on the last Friday of every month.

St. Ledger-Roty Neuman & Olson is offering to sit down one-on-one with individual tech entrepreneurs seeking general advice regarding various legal issues that may arise in the early stages of their business. There will be no charge for this service.

The firms goal is to help tech entrepreneurs address the common issues that many technology start-ups confront.

We have helped many early stage technology companies get through some of the toughest legal issues that they will face in those critical early stages, said St. Ledger-Roty partner Josh Engel. If legal issues are ignored early on, they can fester and cause big problems down the line. We also know that budgets are tight early on, so were offering lunch and some general guidance for free at 1410Q once per month. Were delighted to be sponsoring the technology and entrepreneurial hotspot 1410Q, helping it realize the goal of creating a vibrant D.C.- based tech community.

St. Ledger-Roty Neuman & Olson lawyers can help with the following types of questions:

1) What can I tell, and to whom? Whats the best way to protect my ideas and information when speaking with prospective investors, partners and the like? (NDAs, trade secrets, patents, IP protection).

2) I can't do it alone. I have to partner with developers, designers, infrastructure providers, distributors, resellers, strategic allies. How should I protect my ideas, my IP, my business? Are the terms that these partners are putting on the table reasonable? How and when should I push back?

3) My product/service is so cutting edge that I don't even know if it's legal... What is the legal/regulatory landscape that I have to consider? How can I strategically plan development to take advantage of current the current legal/regulatory landscape and prepare for future changes?

4) My product/service collects, uses, sells, manages, and otherwise touches people's data. What is the privacy and data protection landscape and how do I architect my product/service to stay compliant?

5) I need money to finance my company. How do I get it, and once I'm talking to someone willing to give it to me, how do I best protect my and my company's interests?

6) I want to hire people. Should I hire them as contractors? Employees? How do I compensate them? How do I make sure that I own everything that my contractors are doing? I've identified a foreign born worker - how can I stay compliant with immigration laws?

7) I've hired them... but now I need to fire them... what do I do now?

8) I'm building a brand in my product or corporate trademark. How do I protect my trademark rights?

About 1410Q:

1410Q is not a networking space. You can go anywhere to network. 1410Q is a safe environment for technology entrepreneurs to explore what they are capable of, surrounded by other tech entrepreneurs. Think of it as a little piece of San Francisco, right in the heart of Washington, DC.

1410Q is a place where thought leaders stop in, either by invitation or while they are in town on other business, to have an intimate environment in which to discuss and share topics affecting them. It is a place where innovation happens and is shared.

1410Q is made possible by a funding grant from PointAbout, marketing by iStrategyLabs, and sponsorship support from 3 Click Solutions, Capitol Communications, Rock Creek Strategic Marketing, PRWeb, St. Ledger-Roty Neuman & Olson LLP, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, AppMakr, dcMOMO and Disruptathon. To support this great cause, contact Avery Fellow at avery(dot)fellow(at)1410Q(dot)com or visit http://go.1410Q.com/sponsors.

About St. Ledger-Roty Neuman & Olson LLP:

The lawyers of St. Ledger-Roty Neuman & Olson have extensive experience representing companies in the communications and technology marketplace. We provide counsel to technology companies, such as applications and technology developers, content and information services providers, and wired or wireless broadband and other network providers. We deal with all aspects of the transport, storage and use of digital information. Please visit http://www.slrno.com to learn more, or contact Josh Engel at jengel(at)slrno(dot)com.

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New Documentary LUNCH Exposes Junk Food Economics That Have Created a National Health Crisis

New York, NY (PRWEB) March 18, 2010

As nation-wide funding for school cafeterias drops precipitously, and high-calorie, low-nutrient, over-processed junk food from hamburgers to tacos and pizzaare served up to millions of children each day, the very schools that teach health are contributing to runaway diseases from high-blood pressure and cholesterol to diabetes and obesity.

This month, Birds Nest Productions (http://www.birdsnestproductions.com/), in partnership with Earth Day Network (http://www.earthday.net/) will premiere LUNCH, a thought-provoking documentary short directed by Avis Richards. The film will be co-presented by Earth Day Network and the Center for Environmental Filmmaking, and as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Food & Agriculture Film Series at the American University.

The short documentary film investigates the causes and the consequences of growing up in a junk-food culture. Through numerous on-site interviews with food workers, doctors, educators, and students, Lunch provides a candid, penetrating, and disturbing account of the National School Lunch Programs failure to promote the proper dietary habits to ensure Americas children the physical, social, and psychological well-being that Ms. Richards considers to be a human right and social responsibility.

We should not just teach health, nutrition and wellness in our schools, Ms. Richards said. Our school cafeterias should be new bastion of good eating, serving locally-grown, whole foods as part of the curriculum. While some schools have begun to lead in this movement, we need every parent, teacher, administrator, legislator and the public at large to demand that ALL schools stop loading our childrens lunch trays with dangerously unhealthy foods, often packed with salt, sugar and processed ingredients.

The documentary explores viable alternatives to the hamburger hegemony, talking with farmers and other community leaders about their successful programs and ongoing efforts to change how their children eat at school.

Millions of school children are eating two-thirds of their meals at school every day, and often that food resembles that of a fast-food restaurant, said Kathleen Rogers, president of Earth Day Network. We need reform of the school lunch system at the highest levels of government, to ensure that we feed more children and feed them healthier food.

More information about the documentary, including a trailer, can be found at (http://lunchthefilm.com/).

The documentarys website also includes facts and figures on the junk food epidemic in our nations schools, as well as information about the crew, and upcoming showings that will raise money for programs designed to help schools and communities create healthier, sustainable alternatives.

Notes For Editors

The Child Nutrition Act, which supplies breakfast and lunch to some 31 million students = $ 12 billion annually.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 16 percent of children (over 9 million) 6-19 years old are overweight or obese -- a number that has tripled since 1980.
For children born in the United States in 2000, the lifetime risk of being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at some point in their lives is estimated to be about 30 percent for boys and 40 percent for girls. ("Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance, 2005," Institute of Medicine.)

About Birds Nest Productions & Birds Nest Foundation

Birds Nest Productions is a charitable corporation that produces highly creative and informative PSAs and short video productions for charitable organizations. Ms. Richards, the award-winning executive producer and director has produced and directed over 50 video production films that promote various charities. The goal of Birds Nest Productions is to provide the medium to educate and market to both targeted audiences and the public at-large in order to promote the cause, consequences and issues that effectively enable the client foundation to communicate their message through media and content.

Birds Nest Foundation is the non-for-profit entity that Avis founded to provide services to non-for-profit 501c3 charities. Birds Nest Productions and Birds Nest Foundation have worked with a myriad of charities to provide video productions and web-enabled content benefiting charitable foundations. The charities that benefit from Avis work include a myriad of worthy causes dedicated to improving education, promoting inner-city youth, providing health-care and medical services, protecting against domestic violence, or relating to environmental issues.

For more information visit http://www.birdsnestproductions.com and http://www.birdsnestproductions.org.

About Earth Day Network

Earth Day Network was founded on the premise that all people, regardless of race, gender, income, or geography, have a moral right to a healthy, sustainable environment. Our mission is to broaden and diversify the environmental movement worldwide, and to mobilize it as the most effective vehicle for promoting a healthy, sustainable environment. We pursue our mission through a combination of education, public policy, and consumer activism campaigns. Our campaign and programs are predicated on the belief that an educated, energized population will take action to secure a healthy future for itself and its children. Earth Day Network has a global reach with a network of more than 17,000 partners and organizations in 174 countries. More than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day activities, making it the largest secular civic event in the world.

For more information visit http://www.earthday.net

About The Environmental Film Festival

The Environmental Film Festival has become the leading showcase for environmental films in the United States. Presented in collaboration with over 100 local, national and global organizations, the Festival is one of the largest cooperative cultural events in the nations capital. Films are screened at 56 venues throughout the city, including museums, embassies, libraries, universities and local theaters. Most screenings are free.

For a complete schedule, visit the Festival Web site at http://www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org.

Earth Day Network

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